| Mr Khan said: The libertarian wing is going to eviscerate itself due to the Tea Party in 2012, this i declare. There's too much anger there for the movement to work properly, and we're going to see a Republican convention similar to the Democrats in 68 (though not nearly as extreme), because you've got a moderate wing and an angry wing espousing violence and secessionism
The proper libertarians need to ditch the Republican party, let alone the tea party. If it is really time for their ideas to be heard, they shouldn't be drowned out by the single-issue screams from the Moral Majority and the militants. |
This is why I think there is an opportunity for a king-maker ...
Basically, you can keep the Tea Party and the Republican Party as two entirely separate entities that can each effectively campaign against the Democrats; and if the Tea Party gives their support to the Republican party (possibly by default) it allows the Republican party to have an energized and motivated base while focusing their efforts on campaigning for moderates. Effectively, it opens up a second front in the political campaign and Obama will have to answer to questions about the unsustainability of the deficit as well as whether he was personally going to pull the plug on grandma at the same time.
There is a risk that this could backfire though, because if the tea-party voters want the Republican candidate to support many or all of the same positions they take they could just as easily campaign against the Republican candidate as against the Democrat candidate.
